TAP DANCER – MALE – OLD AGE.

The dance tells a story through photographic flash backs. The dance tells the story of Doomed Youth – Dulce et Decorum Est– popular war poem. http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
This is essentially a war dance. Telling the story of a lonely man’s loss, anger and grief for a child lost at war.
Images: The happy family – Boy’s youth - The boy playing – guns – riding bikes - Trouble at School - Truancy – Boy being chased through street – Father/Son Conflict – A police arrest – An army requirement signature - An interview - A hair cut – Smoking weed in uniform – Gun fire; Inter-cut the war - the stark images of 9/11. A boy shot in Palestine – The Congo – Rwanda - A picture of Bush, Blair, Saddam and that Korean Guy. A Gas mask – a rifle a burning oil field. Hungry, starving children; A smile from a child. The church – The mosque – Food covered in black oil. We use photography - super 8 films – newspaper clippings etc